Lake Boraboy, also known as Lake Kocabey, ( tr, Boraboy Gölü or ''Kocabey Gölü'') is a landslide-dammed lake in Amasya Province, Turkey. The lake and its surroundings were declared a nature park in 2014. The lake is in

Taşova Taşova is a town and a district of Amasya Province of the central Black Sea region of Turkey. It covers an area of 1,041 km², and the population as of 2010 is 33,138, of which 10,759 live in the town of Taşova, the majority spread throughou ...

ilçe (district) of Amasya Province It is situated to the west of the town

Boraboy Boraboy is a village in the Taşova District, Amasya Province, Turkey. Its population is 732 (2021). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town ('' belde''). Geography Boraboy is a mountain town with a beautiful lake, Lake Boraboy. Dist ...

. Its distance to Taşova is and to Amasya is . The lake is situated in the -high, east-west-oriented valley on the Black Sea Mountains. It was formed when the river was blocked by a landslide. The landslide dam was strengthened later with a concrete weir to avoid its split off by flooding. It is long and has a maximum width of . Its total area is around . Its maximum depth is . The lake freezes in the winter time.

Nature park

The lake area was declared a

nature park A nature park, or sometimes natural park, is a designation for a protected natural area by means of long-term land planning, sustainable resource management and limitation of agricultural and real estate developments. These valuable landscape ...

by the

Ministry of Environment and Forest The ''Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change'' ( bn, পরিবেশ, বন ও জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন মন্ত্রণালয়; ''Paribēś, bana o jalabayou paribarton mantraṇālaẏa'') is a ...

in 2014. It covers an area of , being mostly state-owned forest and a small part agricultural field. Average elevation of the nature park is . The highest place is Kaleboynu Hill at . On the northern slopes of the nature park, the common tree species are oriental beech (''

Fagus orientalis ''Fagus orientalis'', commonly known as the Oriental beech, is a deciduous tree in the beech family Fagaceae. It is native to Eurasia, in Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Description ''Fagus orientalis'' is a large tree, capable of reaching he ...

''), black pine (''

Pinus nigra ''Pinus nigra'', the Austrian pine or black pine, is a moderately variable species of pine, occurring across Southern Europe from the Iberian Peninsula to the eastern Mediterranean, on the Anatolian peninsula of Turkey, Corsica and Cyprus, as wel ...

''), Scots pine (''Pinus sylvestris L.''), Turkey oak ('' Quercus cerris'') and endemic oak while the vegetation on the southern slopes is mostly diverse shrubs. The northern bank of the lake is less inclined and provides so place for picnicking. The nature park offers outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, motocross, off-roading,

wildlife photography Wildlife photography is a genre of photography concerned with documenting various forms of wildlife in their natural habitat. As well as requiring photography skills, wildlife photographers may need field craft skills. For example, some anima ...

. There are some accommodation facilities of the

Ministry of Forestry The Ministry of Forestry (russian: Министерство лесного хозяйства СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union in charge of the protection and management of forest resources. History On 2 July 1936, the Main ...

and the municipality of the town Boraboy.

References

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Landforms of Amasya Province

Nature parks in Turkey Taşova District Protected areas established in 2014 2014 establishments in Turkey